A Brief Comment on "A Psalm of Life": 

The poem is renowned for its simple and concise language, sincere and powerful feelings, smooth rhythm and optimistic tone. It opens with a proposition that life isn’t an empty dream, and that our souls may become immortal after death. Then it urges us to live our lives to the full and not just have fun, suffer  passively or wait for death. Although our life on earth is transient, we can make it sublime and eternal. So try, like great men of the past, to  act and leave behind something to be rembered.